Kitchen Poetry no. 6

Saturday morning, pj's not matching, kitchen table full of scrapbook material, not getting dressed at all today, cup of coffee, raining outside, my kids around, and whisteling ''feeling groovy" I feel sooooo gooooooddddd

kitchen poetry no. 5

A really small, tiny ceramic chicken keeping me company on top of my stove while cooking spaghetti.

I can hear Anne-Marie singing in her room down the hall and Paul cheering while watching hockey in the living room.

I feel good. Plain, simple , friday night.

New book, new ideas?

We have the most fantastic public library system! I saw a book advertise the other day on a french website and thought... I WANT THAT BOOK! Open our library website, check it out, nope! Send an e-mail from my library customer account, ask for the book, and two weeks later, get a phone call from the lady of the library front desk that never learned to smile....VOILÀ!!!!

There's 22 patterns in this book all beautifully illustrated with pictured tutorials and patterns all in color and easy to follow. I don't know if it's available in english but you can check it out with ISBN #10: 2-215-07802-2 and ISBN #13: 978-2-215-07802-2
Published by Fleurus Paris 2006. The authors are Marie Enderlen-Debuisson and Caroline Laisné.

The felt one on the cover is very nice. They use all kind of materials from ordinary cotton to plastic tubing used for aquarium filters!

Here is some of my favourites

I told you they were cute! I think that most of you can follow the directions even in french because it's so well explained with drawings and pictures.

In the meantime, I'll be at the cottage this week-end working on the two cute patterns I received from Panet June and hope to be finished so I can post some pictures next week. I will receive some nice wool from Martha's vineyard fiber farm soon so I'll be looking at patterns too.

BTW Have you visited MVFF web site and blog? These sheep can melt your heart with one glance. Check it out, Susan is a very nice person and she has a beautiful adventure to share with all of us knitters and crafters. So I'll post all comments and read e-mails on sunday night when I'm back from paradise!

PS Feel free to comment or ask for some more pictures from the book. There's more!

Salut les filles! Avez-vous vu ce fantastique livre? Les images parlent d'elles-mêmes n'est-ce-pas? Chose certaine, je vais tenter de faire celui en feutre gris c'est certain! Il s'agit maintenant de trouver le feutre. Je pense que je pourrai trouver ça chez CM Textiles ou peut-être chez Club Tissus. Si jamais vous en trouvez, SVP envoyer moi un courriel personnel!!! En attendant, je vais au chalet en fin de semaine. Lantier, here I come. Youppi...........

Some more projects to come?

I have to finish this sweater.....

See. I told you it was the right side.....

I was going through books in my craft room and I saw this one I had forgotten all about....

HUMMMMM Lets look inside... I have loads of cheap and a little bit of very very good yarn. I could use some cheap one and knit this one for Lulu:

And this one for Mr. Max:

OK! Let's finish that white sweater for me.....

And then for my four legged friends......

ELECTION DAY !

I forgot to wish our American neighbors a good Election Day! Let's hope that there will be changes that bring peace and happiness.... No matter who you vote for, I wish you the best!

See what happens....

See what happens when you dress up your dog in a Halloween costume? Now she thinks she's a kid! With a little coaxing and she did it!!!! Maybe small but full of gutts!

Now what do I do with this sweater? Everybody that saw it think that the wrong side is the right side. What do you think? Personally, I prefer the right side. I love that ribbing, its large and very stretchy. I'll scan the picture of the pattern tonight and post it tomorrow.

right side

wrong side

I KNOW!!! I'm a lousy photographer! I'll have to do something about this.

the ribbing

Oh boy... Brigitte tu dois m'aider à prendre de jolies photos... This yarn is acrylic and I hate acrylic yarn. My mom had a yarn store a few years ago and sold it. We ended up with boxes of yarn and I decided to knit it all before buying new yarns. So next time I walked in front of my favourite LYS, I'll have to close my eyes and think about something else! (sigh)

We said allo to Mr Pumkin potato head

walking down the street with a dog dressed in a tutu. I never imagined that a dog wearing a costume would make kids so happy! I had a bag of chips in my pocket and and Lulu made little dances for the kids! Prima ballerina with the Canadian Ballet euhhh make that Canine Ballet. It was so much fun that next year we'll go with both dogs. That's if I can have Max wear a costume but we'll have a year to practice. Look at these dirty paws....


Thanks to Leslie from a friend to knit with for her suggetions, I could finish Lulu (on my banner) and Pepito

I needled felted the eyes and nose on this one. Mr. rabbit will be done tomorrow when I decide which colors to use.

Then I'll be able to start Max, thanks to June of Planet june for her Jack Russell pattern.

Nice to get all these projects finally finished. Then I'll finished the white sweater, then my granny square blanket, then my red and blue blanket.... ouf I'm getting tired now. Ok, where's my crochet now?